Re: No russian 85mm AA gun ?
 

Of course you can make your own edits, but you cannot circumvent the game code.

IIRC you cannot make your "Heavy AA" gun fire at its most likely target, heavy bombers, because AA weapons in the game will not fire at those. They will fire at fighter bombers and other low flying "air strike" type aircraft but with a realistic rate of fire, they wont get many shots off anyway. So what you end up with is a rather useless unit that doesn't function realistically.

Just for the fun of it, I tried making a German dual 128mm FlaK and it was rather crappy, getting off a few shots before the FBs turned on it and knocked it out. Not really worth having - but perhaps you'll have better luck http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Claus B

Re: No russian 85mm AA gun ?
 

Maybe...

Re: No russian 85mm AA gun ?
 

well - I could add some code for AAA of a certain WH size and/or range to allow firing at bombers (only) - not fighters etc. (not in thier job description or capability).

Which would produce a expensive unit that would sit around doing precisely nothing for 99.999% of battles (the AI only ever using bombers as a preplanned scenario item).

All this would then really do is provide extra OOB headaches. Then even if described in the documentation, or right there on the unit info screen, not many end users would actually RTFM http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif. So we would get end user support calls of the "I bought a boogaloo 7.2inch super-AA cannon and it does not shoot at enemy planes, wah boo-hoo! the game is broken" variety.

On second thoughts - nope. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Andy

Re: No russian 85mm AA gun ?
 

Personally I have included the KS-19 (a postwar 100mm heavy flak gun) in a SPMBT OOB, under the reasoning that if an on map SA-2 (minimum range 6-8 Km) is OK then such weapon would be OK too, even if only for special scenario design purposes.

Re: No russian 85mm AA gun ?
 

Exceptions always seem to breed requests for further exceptions......

Don